From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:34:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib: fix non-portable pattern bracket expressions
Message-ID: <20190212003446.GF13301@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190212003018.GA1622@szeder.dev>

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 01:30:18AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> > I learn
> > another one. :) Thanks for fixing this, and for digging up the POSIX
> > reference.
> 
> I had to, that 16.04's dash worked, but neither dash in older LTS nor
> newer upstream version did was particularly puzzling.  Turns out that
> in 0.5.8-1 Ubuntu (Debian? dunno.) started to configure dash with
> '--enable-fnmatch', which makes it understand '^' as well.

Ah, doubly puzzling. It works fine in my Debian dash (but fnmatch was
enabled in 0.5.8-1 there, too).

-Peff